Ateba Gautier will return to motion later this month, and an Oktagon MMA two-division champion who spars with the surging UFC middleweight has weighed in on that bout.
Gautier clashes with Andrey Pulyaev at UFC 324 on January twenty fourth, and Will Fleury has weighed in on the middleweight matchup. Fleury has aspirations to turn into a three-division champion, with mild heavyweight and heavyweight belts in Oktagon MMA. Talking to these broader legacy-related objectives for 185 pound {hardware} and referencing his work with the UFC middleweight, Fleury mentioned [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“Properly, look, I used to be sparring with Ateba Gautier over in Manchester a few weeks in the past and Ateba was 104 kilo and I used to be 106. He’s going to battle middleweight on the finish of January. So, like I wouldn’t be planning on preventing middleweight wherever close to that rapidly. However it reveals me that look, in the event you’re prepared to place within the work, that is undoubtedly doable. However such as you mentioned, proper now, primary objective, beat Martin Buday on December twenty eighth.”
Ateba Gautier is “simply gonna go on a tear,” says Will Fleury
Fleury did in truth go on to dispatch the ex-Oktagon MMA champ and former UFC vet with a successful octagon report in Martin Buday to shut out 2025. Redirecting the main target to how he sees his sparring associate Gautier doing on this UFC 324 conflict although, Fleury said [via Bowks Talking Bouts],
“Yeah. I watched a little bit of the opposite man simply because we had been sparring bit collectively that week and he retains his head very excessive. Ateba, he mentioned; man, Ateba is absolutely good. Like contemplating he’s not within the sport that lengthy he’s [a] very sensible fighter . Such as you discover the second time you spar him, he’ll have learn issues from the primary time. Like he’s a pointy man, he’s sensible.”
“It’s very laborious to love totally trick him into issues and particularly for a man who’s like newer to the game. I actually suppose he’s simply gonna go on a tear. Like I really feel like he’ll knock that man out within the first spherical. However even after that, it’s laborious to see with the bodily specimen that he’s and with the extent of preparation and thought course of that he places round it.”
“Even like having Carl Prince as a coach, sky’s the restrict for that man, man. You recognize, I actually suppose he could possibly be a champion inside the subsequent two or three years. It’s similar to it is determined by the trail that he will get to get there. However with the correct path and like with the correct timing and the correct battle, the man might simply be a champion within the subsequent two or three years.”
